This painting is about the journey that takes place at death. It is from Roman mythology. There is no factual knowledge about what occurs after physical death. The only 'answers' to the question about what happens after death, are provided by 'faiths'...any they provide many contradictory answers. What I know intuitively is that death starts a journey of further maturation. Charon, in this pictures, is ready to ferry us but does not reveal the destination.